Expect rolling blackouts for every week until at least December - experts

Johannesburg - Expect rolling blackouts for every week until at least December. That’s the bleak outlook for the country’s precarious energy supply from energy expert Lungile Mashele.

“We are heading into our summer maintenance as well so we’re definitely going to be experiencing load shedding until at least December. The outlook is very bleak with load shedding expected every week.” Citing unplanned breakdowns that led to an energy demand deficit of about 3 000MW, aggravated by increased demand because of cold weather, Eskom said while its ageing fleet “is plagued by legacy issues of neglect and omitted maintenance and is therefore susceptible to unpredictable breakdowns, it is also true that the situation is exacerbated by serious issues of apathetic behaviour by some management staff”.

“They are some very highly paid people at Eskom and there’s a lot of mediocrity there. There’s a drive for a new culture of accountability and under the new leadership, they are expecting excellence for the high salaries. During the Zuma era of Koko and Molefe, there were a whole lot of wrong people put into positions at Eskom and an immensely high turnover.

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